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Discordant short- and long-term outcomes associated with diabetes in patients with heart failure: importance of age and sex: a population study of 5.1 million people in Scotland
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MacDonald, MR and Jhund, PS and Petrie, MC and Lewsey, JD and Hawkins, NM and Bhagra, S and Munoz, N and Varyani, F and Redpath, A and Chalmers, J and Macintyre, K and McMurray, JJ, Discordant short- and long-term outcomes associated with diabetes in patients with heart failure: importance of age and sex: a population study of 5.1 million people in Scotland, Circulation. Heart Failure, 1, (4) pp. 234-241. ISSN 1941-3297 (2008) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.108.794008
Abstract
METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 116 556 patients were studied, of whom 13% (n=15 161) had a diagnosis of diabetes. At 30 days, diabetes was associated with a lower case fatality. By 1 year, the association between diabetes and better outcome was reversed, and diabetes was a significant independent predictor of higher case fatality. The longer term risk of death associated with diabetes was greatest in younger patients. In patients aged 65 years or younger, the hazard ratio for mortality at 5 years associated with diabetes was 1.41 (95% CI, 1.31 to 1.52) for men and 1.64 (1.50 to 1.79) for women. The risk associated with diabetes was less in patients aged 75 years or older: a hazard ratio in men 1.16 (1.10 to 1.22) and in women 1.15 (1.10 to 1.20). In the younger age group the risk associated with diabetes was significantly greater in women than in men (P=0.005 for diabetes-sex interaction). Diabetes was also a significant independent predictor of heart failure readmission, and again the risk was greatest in younger women.
CONCLUSIONS: Although diabetes was associated with a lower case fatality at 30 days, by 1 year it was a significant independent predictor of higher case fatality. The risk associated with diabetes was greatest in young patients, and in young patients the risk was greatest in women.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Cardiovascular medicine and haematology |
| Research Field: | Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Clinical health |
| Objective Field: | Clinical health not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Macintyre, K (Dr Kate Macintyre) |
| ID Code: | 95735 |
| Year Published: | 2008 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 48 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine |
| Deposited On: | 2014-10-08 |
| Last Modified: | 2014-10-08 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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